http://www.mg.co.za/article/2010-02-14-google-takes-another-step-towards-turning-into-microsoft
Well done to John Naughton for putting this insight forward. The parallels between decisions being made by Google today and Microsoft yesterday are thought-provoking and remind us all that Google isn't a charity. Perhaps we should be more concerned about the market muscle Google now has as a corporation.
I was listening to a radio show last week that talked about morality and raised the point that at one time we used to celebrate goodness and selflessness by celebrity in the form of Saints. As a society we don't have celebrity 'good people' today and that's left something missing in the world our children are growing up in. My kids probably think that CRIBS is a better example of what to aim for than sainthood. Putting on these glasses unfolds the ugliness of corporate counter-competitive strategies - and the lengths that the mega-IT organizations like Google are prepared to go to in order to prevent youthful innovation from hitting their profits.
Thanks to cloud computing and the energy of the Asian and European technology markets, we're seeing new shoots of more charitable and thoughtful organizations emerge that want to give more back to society.
Hopefully it won't be too long before the majority of the money that gets invested into IT software and services finds its way to better places and better values. Perhaps focusing more on Saints and less on Cribs would be a good place to start.
Well done to John Naughton for putting this insight forward. The parallels between decisions being made by Google today and Microsoft yesterday are thought-provoking and remind us all that Google isn't a charity. Perhaps we should be more concerned about the market muscle Google now has as a corporation.
I was listening to a radio show last week that talked about morality and raised the point that at one time we used to celebrate goodness and selflessness by celebrity in the form of Saints. As a society we don't have celebrity 'good people' today and that's left something missing in the world our children are growing up in. My kids probably think that CRIBS is a better example of what to aim for than sainthood. Putting on these glasses unfolds the ugliness of corporate counter-competitive strategies - and the lengths that the mega-IT organizations like Google are prepared to go to in order to prevent youthful innovation from hitting their profits.
Thanks to cloud computing and the energy of the Asian and European technology markets, we're seeing new shoots of more charitable and thoughtful organizations emerge that want to give more back to society.
Hopefully it won't be too long before the majority of the money that gets invested into IT software and services finds its way to better places and better values. Perhaps focusing more on Saints and less on Cribs would be a good place to start.
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